Political economy

The book explores how, to what extent and with what consequences the international crisis of 2007-2008 and the recession which followed have affected European SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in both the well established market economies of the old member countries and in the post-transformation new member countries, and what can be done at the institutional and political level to uphold them.

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Eine funktionierende leitungsgebundene Energieversorgung ist Voraussetzung für die industrielle Entwicklung eines Landes.

Linda Matar examines Syria's failure to promote employment-generating investment prior to the uprising.

Managing Business Projects: The Essentials differs from many other project management textbooks.

This book examines the evolution of international political economy (IPE) as a field of study in China, detailing the evolving boundaries and the content of the field.

This book demonstrates how the Thalidomide catastrophe of the 1960s and the BSE crisis of the 1990s led to regulatory regimes for pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs in Europe.

The adoption and management of the common currency has led the Eurozone to a critical point.

This book highlights the social, economic and environmental importance of the mutual relations between industries in the same and in different regions and nations, and demonstrates how to model these relations using regional, interregional and international input-output (IO) models.

This authored monograph covers a viability to approach to traffic management by advising to vehicles circulated on the network the velocity they should follow for satisfying global traffic conditions;.

Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups.

Explores how China has reached a threshold where continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics.

While a positive correlation between capitalism and democracy has existed in Western Europe and North America, the example of late-industrializing nations such as Turkey has demonstrated that the two need not always go hand in hand, and sometimes the interests of business coincide more firmly with anti-democratic forces.

Capitalist Economics introduces and explains the basic economic forces that shape the present and structure the future of capitalist societies today.

This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system.

A deep look into the agency that implements the president's marching orders to the rest of the executive branchThe Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is one of the federal government's most important and powerful agenciesbut it's also one of the least-known among the general public.

This book addresses the interrelationship between economic and financial crises, the responses thereto, and economic and social rights.

The development of market socialism in China has contributed to a remarkable spatial economic transformation in particular areas of the Chinese countryside.

Leading economists, including three Nobel prize winners, evaluate ten serious global challenges.

Entrepreneurship in the Region approaches many different aspects of entrepreneurship from a regional perspective.

Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question: What is planning?

Peacekeeping is a security concept that is very representative of the current interventionism, multilateralism, human rights, and humanitarian ideas.

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is completing a decade.

This book provides readers with an analysis of econometric methods using statistical information to examine actual aspects of Japan's regional economy.

From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy.

Since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis the ideas of Karl Marx have once again become prominent in social and political thought.

A clear and concise history of economic thought, developed from the author''s award-winning book, The Wealth of Ideas.

As European integration continues, the future of EMU becomes ever more important.

An examination of why politicians choose to employ targeted tax incentives to firms that are inefficient and distortionary.

Italy is a country of recent decline and long-standing idiosyncratic traits.

Applying the principles of Optimal Control Theory to the problem of regional allocation of investment can be a useful tool for demonstrating how the trade-off between regional equity and overall efficiency can be overcome.

This book describes the WTO from its post-WWII beginnings in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade through a series of negotiated enhancements of these agreements.

Der Bericht Benchmarking Deutschland beurteilt den Wirtschafts- und Sozialstandort Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich.

This book aims at China's economic and social development, which has embarked on a new journey.

This book, the first of its kind, brings together leading scholars from multiple perspectives in a serious dialogue about continuity and change in global media production and content.

This 2002 study examines the process of the disintegration of the Soviet state.

This book assesses the role of microfinance in the construction of livelihoods for poverty reduction in the Northern Savannah of Ghana, analysing the current microfinance landscape and financial services in the region.

The neo-Weberian state constitutes an attempt to combine the Weberian model of administration with the principles laid down during the retreat from the bureaucratic management paradigm (new public management and public governance).

Terrorism kills far fewer Americans annually than automobile accidents, firearms, or even lightning strikes.

This volume examines the interrelationship between democratic legitimacy at the European level and the ongoing Eurozone crisis that began in 2010.

The 1990s were a decade characterized by optimism about a great future that lay ahead for generations to follow.

Ian Steedman is recognised internationally as one of the leading economic theorists of his time and has made major contributions to the development of economic theory and economic thought, as substantiated by his work on Marx, Sraffa, Marshall, Jevons and Wicksteed.

This book concentrates on ethnic minorities such as former slaves, outcastes and indigenous peoples dispossessed of homeland.